Pan Fried Pork Chops with Sugar Snap Peas

Here is my first recipe! This is pork chops, cooked with onions, peppers and sugar snap peas. This meal is very quick and very cheap! Ingredients Boneless Pork Chops £1.20 to £1.70 depending on size but you get 2 Sugar Snap Peas 89p Onion 55p Red Pepper 68p Yellow Pepper 68p Total: £4.00 Can serve one or two depending on who many chops you want. You will only need half and onion peppers and sugar snap peas so they can be used again.

Preparation

• You will need a frying pan, saucepan, knife and chopping board.
• First cut the onion in half and peal one half of it. Save the other by putting it back in the fridge. Then finely chop.
• Cut the peppers in half and save the others half in the fridge. Next cut out the inside out making sure you get all the seeds and white part. Then finely chop again.
• Put the onions and peppers to one side, then take the pork and slice cuts along the meat on both sides. Do not cut all the way through you only want little cuts so you can season the meat.
• Next season it with salt and pepper by rubbing it into the cuts this means getting your hands a little messy.

Cooking

• Fill the saucepan up with water and heat to the boil. This is for the sugar snap peas later.
  
• While the water heats up cook the meat this will take about 15 minutes. Heat the pan with a medium heat and add oil, any will do. Cooking the meat on a medium heat will stop the meat from burning and losing its flavor. Occasionally turn the meat and make sure it is cook properly. This can be done by slicing through and checking there is no blood in the middle. The juice from the meat should run clear not bloody too.
• After 8 minutes add the peppers and onion to the pan. Keep turning them over and make sure they get slightly burnt to add flavor.
  
• 5 minutes before the meat and peppers are done add the sugar snap peas to the boiling water. They will only take 3 to 5 minutes you do not want them to soft so keep checking them.
• Drain the peas and then place both the pork, onions and peppers in the center of the plate.
• Finally add the peas on top and your done.

20 minutes has gone by and you have your meal. All prices are from Asda but you would get roughly the same anywhere else.

My First Entry

Welcome to my blog.
Through out this week and hopefully from every week onwards i will be putting recipes that are cheap, healthy and relatively quick that you can try yourself. Not only myself but i hope that everyone will be doing the same giving me new ideas. I will be putting pictures of food i have cooked and videos from Youtube that will be about cooking and the different ways to use food. Hopefully, i aim to show that students do not just eat the traditionally beans on toast and that we can actually cook.
For those who have a limited use of cooking skills this is a great way to find out how to cook food that you were unsure of. Those who can cook can share ideas even post videos, the choice is yours. I will be including the price and where i bought the food from. Where the deals are on that certain week, that way you and i and everyone else can get good food at a good price. This site is for everyone not just students, so any ideas feel free to share.